Book Review and Activity of Amelie Gets Busy!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCCBD) falls on January 27,
2016. The mission of MCCBD is to not only raise awareness for kids’ books that
celebrate diversity, but to also get more of these of books into classrooms and
libraries. MCCBD assigns a book for participating bloggers to review.

Since
the beginning of the story, the main character, Amelia seems impressed with all
the wonders around her at the village’s farm with
herGreek
grandma named yiayia.Visiting Grandma is an opportunity to
enjoy nature, flowers, plants, birds and farm animals. The lovely yiayia
protects Amelia with affection and care. The children story ends with a fond display
of yiayia’s favorite keepsake box where she keeps the reason to be impressed of
farm’s life.

The author Agatha Rodi uses elegant rhymes to make the story dances with poetic
structure. Soft pastel illustrations depict the simple and beautiful gardening
and farming’s Greek life style.

About MCCBDThe MCCBD team’s mission is to spread the word
and raise awareness about the importance of diversity in children’s literature.
Young readers need to see themselves within the pages of a book and experience
other cultures, languages, traditions and religions within the pages of a book.
MCCBD encourages readers, parents, teachers, caregivers and librarians to
follow along the fun book reviews, author visits and event. The full name of this event
is Multicultural Children’s Book Day and
the official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld on Twitter and other social media.

The co-creators of MCCBD are Mia Wenjen fromPragmatic Mom and Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book/Audrey Press. Find a bio for Mia and Valarie here.View the Diversity Book Lists and Resources for Educators and
Parentshere. Connect with
Multicultural Children’s Book Day onFacebook.